About Aletheia
Built because the institutions did not.
Aletheia is built by Lonia AI. The federal scaffolding that was supposed to protect access is being dismantled in real time. The people locked out cannot wait another decade for institutions to catch up.
Mission
Put access in the hands of the person who needs it.
Most accessibility tools are aimed at the institution: scanners that tell an organization what is broken, or overlays that promise to patch a site automatically. Those approaches depend on the publisher acting, and the publisher often does not.
Aletheia is aimed at the user. It does not wait for a website owner to add alt text or tag a PDF. It rebuilds the content for the person reading it, with that person in control of what is processed and what is kept. That is not a workaround. It is agency.
Why Aletheia exists
Decades of standards. Most of the web still fails.
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed in 1990. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 have guided digital accessibility for over two decades. The expectations are clear and long-standing.
The web has not caught up. WebAIM's 2026 analysis of the top one million home pages detected WCAG 2 failures on 95.9 percent of them. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than one in four U.S. adults live with a disability. That is a large population running into barriers every day, with no control over when, or whether, those barriers get fixed.
The enforcement is now moving backward. 96 percent of websites still fail basic accessibility standards, and that number has barely moved in a decade. In April 2026, the government pushed the ADA Title II compliance deadline back again. In May 2026, HHS did the same for Section 504. In June 2026, the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel narrowed Olmstead. The people locked out do not have another decade to wait.
Aletheia exists for the long stretch between when access is owed and when it is delivered, and for the cases where it never is.
The name
Aletheia means unconcealment.
Aletheia is the Greek concept of unconcealment, of revealing what has been hidden. An image without alt text is not absent for a sighted user; it is concealed from a blind one. A scanned PDF is not unreadable to anyone with eyes; it is concealed from anyone using a screen reader. Aletheia removes the concealment and returns the content to the people it was always meant for.
The commitment
Three pillars, in every tier including Free.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 Level AA and Section 508 compliance, built from the ground up, not retrofitted. The tool that removes barriers cannot be a barrier itself.
Compliance
HIPAA-aware PII detection. GDPR-conscious data handling. Full audit trails. On-device processing keeps medical and student documents on the device, and data minimization is the default, not an upgrade.
Security
OAuth-only authentication. Zero password storage. Encrypted everything. There is no central document store, and these protections apply to every tier, including the Free tier.
Part of Lonia AI
One tool in a focused portfolio.
Lonia AI was founded in 2024 to build software for people that mainstream tools treat as edge cases. Aletheia is the tool aimed directly at the user rather than the institution.
The founder of Lonia AI spent over a decade making government and enterprise software accessible the hard way. Aletheia is the tool the founder wished existed for the people they were trying to help.
Lonia AI is a small, independent team. You can learn more about the rest of the portfolio at lonia.ai.
What Aletheia is not
Not a replacement for the work institutions still owe.
Aletheia is not a replacement for the work institutions still owe. Organizations still have a legal and moral obligation to make their content accessible. If you run a website, fix it. If you publish documents, tag them. If you build forms, label them. The right answer is to make the original content accessible, not to push the cost of fixing it onto the people who were already harmed by it. Aletheia fills the gap while they catch up. If they catch up.
That is not a workaround. It is a right that no executive order, no interim final rule, and no Office of Legal Counsel opinion can take away.
Questions can be sent to support@lonia.ai.